"Bo" Dietl (born December 4, 1950) is an American retired NYPD police detective, media personality, actor, and political candidate.
[6][7][8] Dietl has appeared in three Martin Scorsese films: as the detective who arrests Henry Hill in Goodfellas (1990), as himself in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and as labor leader and mob boss Joseph Glimco in The Irishman (2019).
He had also appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[12] The O'Reilly Factor, and had a guest role on the NBC crime drama Law & Order.
][citation needed] On December 6, 2010, Dietl joined Fox News contributors Joel Mowbray and Bob Beckel in calling for the assassination of Julian Assange.
In February 2017, Dietl announced he would no longer be challenging de Blasio in the primaries, running instead as an independent,[21] due to a paperwork filing error.
[22][23] Dietl has worked as a private investigator on behalf of numerous high-profile conservative personalities, including Steve Bannon and Don Imus.
[24] On May 4, 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported that Dietl said he was hired by Fox News network management to discredit the harassment claims by former anchor Gretchen Carlson and former producer Andrea Mackris against Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly.